Shinzen Young is a vipassana meditation teacher and towering figure in the American Buddhist community. One of Shinzen’s most powerful and practical teachings is about how to meditate on fear and anxiety. Instead of passively suffering through these … [Read more...]
How Do We Talk About Enlightenment?
As William James noted in The Varieties of Religious Experience, mystical experiences are both noetic and ineffable. That is, they have the force of revealed truth. And they are impossible to capture in words. Even so, there are plenty of us … [Read more...]
Buddha as Therapist — How Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Illuminates the Four Noble Truths
Why do we suffer so much? And what can we actually do about it? Those questions were raised by the Buddha nearly 2500 years ago. In response, he gave us his teaching about the Four Noble Truths. Today we have a new type of psychotherapy that raises … [Read more...]
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